Social Psychology and Everyday Life

Offering a fresh, innovative approach, this international textbook encourages students to consider how social psychology can inform their understanding of the social world around them. Illustrative scenarios based on realistic everyday events, from shopping in a supermarket to taking a taxi, highlight just how relevant this subject is to tackling the issues that can arise in a diverse, multicultural society. By integrating core social psychology theories and concepts with more critical perspectives, Social Psychology and Everyday Life provides a valuable, broad, coherent and stimulating introduction that is suitable for all students interested in social psychology. The book also situates social psychology within the broader social sciences, and in particular scholarship on media, place, health, justice, indigeneity, immigration, and social change.

ISBN 0230217958   Pages 432 ISBN13 9780230217959 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 830 Publisher Palgrave Macmillan   Published in Basingstoke Imprint Palgrave Macmillan   Height (mm) 245 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 186 Publication date 12 Mar 2010   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY 302   Academic level Tertiary education DEWEY edition DC22

1		Introduction to the social psychology of everyday life		1
2		A history of social psychology		21
3		Contemporary social psychology and the focus on everyday life		51
4		Making sense of everyday knowledge		77
5		Indigenous psychologies and the social psychology of everyday life		113
6		Social psychology and place		149
7		Immigration, acculturation and settlement		181
8		Understanding health and illness		217
9		Social justice in everyday life		253
10		Pro-social behaviour and critical humanism		287
11		Media and daily practice		321
12		Towards social psychologies of everyday life		357
		References		373
		Author Index		413
		Subject Index		419

"Social Psychology and Everyday Life is more engaging and more thought-provoking than any other Social Psychology text I have read. It is a well-researched and refreshing introduction to Social Psychology, its application and its importance for understanding social, cultural and political change. It offers a critical account of the field while acknowledging the value of more mainstream theories and classic studies. As such, it promises to be an enormously useful resource in teaching. Students at all levels will find it interesting, challenging and relevant to their lives and careers." Dr Caroline Howarth, Social Psychology, London School of Economics "I typically respond with great suspicion to textbooks that are a bit 'outside the square'. But this textbook is different: It embraces mainstream meta-theories in social psychology and puts them up-side-down in a way that respects the intelligence and sensitivities of the average reader. It does it in a way that is likely to appeal and be acceptable to a large audience." Dr Stefania Paolini, Social Psychology lecturer, University of Newcastle, Australia "Social Psychology in Everyday Life does what social psychology textbooks rarely dare to do: it applies the theories of social psychology to the everyday world we actually inhabit. Starting with social problems and experiences to which students can easily relate, the text then leads us from one insight to the next to show how social psychology can transform the world around us." Alex Gillespie, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Stirling

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